Chapter 10: Preparations for the fairy tournament
Jason woke up, when Toby got out of bed.
"Where are you going?" he asked tired.
"Liz and Malika are back, I'm going to go tell them what happened, tell them that I will be staying over for the night" Toby said. He gave Jason a kiss on his forehead. 'I'll be right back." Toby went to the living room, and closed the door behind him, leaving Jason alone. Jason turned so that he would face the window, he looked at the mountains again. "Oh Jared, what on earth have you gotten into?" he whispered. He thought about how close they were before Magix, they were like brothers and all of that, reduced to nothing and Jason wasn't even sure why. He felt tears coming up, and softly started to cry again. How could he possible ever understand this, it felt like a piece of his heart was being ripped out.
Toby opened the door "Jason, Liz asks if she should prepare dinner for you?" he asked
"yeah, but only if she prepares dinner for you as well" he replied.
Toby could hear the pain in Jason's voice and said "Listen, Jason I'm sure that it will all work out, trust me" The fact that Toby cared for him, no matter what, made Jason feel a little better. Jason sat up in bed, and dried his tears. Toby walked over to the bed, took his hand and said "come on, lets go to Liz and Malika" Jason nodded, and followed Toby into the living room. Liz came up to him, hugged him and said "it's all going to be fine, and besides I see that you are together now" she smiled. "I'm making spaghetti again, I can't really make anything else." She said walking into the kitchen.
Jason started to play with Malika, Toby just sat there in the sofa, looking at him, with a gentle and soft smile. Until diner was ready, then the four of them went sitting at the table. There was a small pixie table, with a small pixie chair standing on the table for Malika. "How was the museum?" Jason asked "I really wanted to go" he added.
"well, the museum was alright I guess, there was this exhibit about the three ancestral witches, wasn't really that much fun" Liz said "The fun came after the museum, when professor Paledium announced that television crews are coming next month, the 4th of October I think"
"television crews?" Jason repeated her "why?"
Liz smiled and added "well on the 4th of October there is a magic tournament here on Alfea, between us students. We can all join if we want. Then we fight each other and the winner gets a prize, you know like a basic magic tournament." She said
"Are you going to enter?" he asked her. "no" she said
"well, I think I am" Jason said "that will distract me and I have an excuse to master new spells." He added.
"Liz and I will be your fan club then!" yelled Malika clapping her hands overexcited.
"don't forget about me, his number one fan" said Toby
Jason blushed and they all started to laugh.
Toby, Liz and Malika helped Jason train, within a week he mastered his ability to transform, within two weeks he mastered some protective spell. During the third week they went for a jog every day, so that his physical stamina would be ok as well. Then during the last week before the tournament Jason and Toby spend all of their free time at the apartment with loads of spell books, teaching Jason all about offensive magic. He got quiet a lot of new spells. Toby learned him which spells to avoid using, if he didn't want to repeat what happened during the attack of Eris. The month of preparation didn't just make Jason and Toby a stronger couple, the bond of friendship between Liz, Malika, Jason and Toby grew stronger.